Chit-Chat Check-In #160
Hello, this is your Captain speaking. I’m getting ready to go on tour, but I wanted to share a song by another fairly obscure band that originated in England: Fleetwood Mac. Again, just like with The Beatles, if you haven’t heard them, you should check them out. It’s fairly easy to find some of their stuff online if you look for it. Alright, that’s enough of that joke.
“Dreams.” I was asked to play it for someone’s wedding, and I learned it and then thought I’d share it with you all. Not much else to report. I mean, not much that I can think of right now. I keep promising more substantive posts, but hopefully I’m keeping you entertained to some degree.
Some more recommendations--I usually do one old one and one new one, but I’m going to do two newer ones that are both instrumental. I guess because I’m writing a lot and listening to a lot of instrumental records while I write, and I enjoy that. Cole Berliner--he was in a band called Kamikaze Palm Tree that toured with us, and that I really love. And then he has a band with Dylan, the same woman who’s in Kamikaze Palm Tree, called Sharpie Smile. Which, confusingly, was also a name of one of the Kamikaze Palm Tree songs. His new record, The Black Door--is it The Black Door or The Back Door? Well, there’s no way of knowing. Just like there’s no way of knowing if I’ve ever shared a song by Fleetwood Mac before. Oh well. I think I have. Maybe more than one? But again, there’s no way to know.
The other recommendation is Marisa Anderson’s new record, An Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music. Which is, interestingly enough, all instrumental. So it being UnAmerican is pretty poignant. It’s an instrumental record called An Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music and it’s all intstrumental. It’s beautiful, and you should check it out. I think it’s very American, personally.
I think that’s it. I did my best with this song. It’s not necessarily in my skillset, but I love learning songs that are kind of challenging to me, vocally. And this one is right at the edge of my upper range, full range singing, right where it crosses over into falsetto. That’s actualy kind of a fun place to sing a lot of times.
OK, I think we’ve taken care of all the things that need to be discussed. Let’s see ... yeah, let me know if I forgot anything to talk about, it in the comments. Seems like you guys did check out The Beatles and some of you liked it, that was good to hear in the comments last week.
Did I just wake up? I don’t think I did. I think I’ve been up for a while. Maybe I’m, I don’t know, maybe I’m losing it.
I’m OK. Carry on.